Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.

Leonard Bloomfield, having begun with a theory of meaning which emphasized the environment in which objects were present and named, had to add the obvious proviso that we sometimes mention what is not present.
Leonard Bloomfield, begun with a theory that emphasized the environment in which objects existed, had to add that we sometimes mention what is not present.

"Reponses will run Thursday and be forwarded to Amtrak for a shot at the big prize, a one-month free pass on the MARC."
Your response will be entered to win a one month free pass on the MARC.

The invocation of God in the Gettysburg Address is both accidental and entirely predictable. It is accidental in the sense that Lincoln spontaneously added the divine invocation as he neared the end of the address.

The invocation of God in the Gettysburg Address is entirely predictable. It is accidental because Lincoln added the invocation at the end of the address.

